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ארץ ישראל בזמן הזה, ועניני קדושת ארץ ישראל בזמן הזה
אמר הקדוש ברוך הוא למשה: הארץ חביבה עלי, וישראל חביבים עלי,
אכניס את ישראל שהם חביבים עלי, לארץ שחביבה עלי (במדבר רבה כג)
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And I must let you know, the great yearning in my soul to come for the Holy days (Yamim Keddoshim) to the gates of Yerushalaim, but what can I do, that this was not possible and I have to wait until after Succot Im Irtze Hashem
The Chafetz Chaim, Michtavim u Maamarim, Letter to Rav David Potosh 24 Elul 5685 (1925)I will hereby recount to my brothers what has happened to me in the last few years at my old age, and I am forced to let the public know about my distress that I have been through up until today. Because for the last few years I have had the thought of traveling to the Holy Land (Eretz ha Koddesh) and to settle there before Hashem during my final days in Torah and Divine service during all the days of my life which Hashem will merit me to live there. And I made great preparations towards this end, and I have almost spent a whole year making all the arrangements necessary for this, like documents and tickets, and when the time finally came in which to travel, one or two days before my departure, suddenly my wife fell ill with a dangerous disease and I was forced to travel to Vilna for great Doctors were there...
The Chafetz Chaim, Michtavim u Maamarim, Letter to Rav Shmuel Ytzchak Hillman, Av Bet Din London, 3 Tevet 5686 (1926)It has been already three years since I was ready to travel to the Holy Land (Eretz ha Koddesh) but I was prevented from heaven, because suddenly my wife fell ill, and Boruch Hashem through the prayers of many, she has become healthy again. Meantime I have become older, and it is still my desire to travel to the Eretz ha Koddesh...
The Chafetz Chaim, Michtavim u Maamarim, Letter to Rav Shmuel Ytzchak Hillman, Av Bet Din London, 24 Cheshvan 5689 (1928)“"I heard from Rabbi Aryeh Leib, the son of the Chofetz Chaim, that when his father heard about the settlements which had been founded in Eretz Israel; in Rehovot, Rishon L'Zion, and Gedera, he said in Yiddish, 'Behold, the thing (Geula) has already begun.'
HaRav Shmuel Mohliver ZTKL
A certain G-d-fearing Jew abandoned the Land of Israel and was accustomed to say bad things about it. HaRav Shmuel Mohliver said, 'This does not make sense. All of the Torah is filled with praise for Eretz Israel. How could a G-d-fearing Jew say the opposite of what is written in the Torah?' To explain, he told a parable: A Shidduch was once arranged between two young people. Before the meeting, the girl realized that she already knew the boy, and it was clear to her that he wasn't the right partner for her. However, she didn't want to embarrass the boy by not going to meet him. So she showed up disheveled and dirty in hopes that the 'boy wouldn't like her. This is similar to our case of the Jew who was expelled by the Land. This is a sign that something was at fault with him. However, the Lord loves every Jew and does not want to humiliate someone by expelling him outright from Eretz Israel, so He makes the Land appear in an opposite light from what the person hopes for, (and the person seemingly decides to leave the Land on his own.) (HaRav Yitzhak Nissenbaum, "Rishonim L'Zion," The Hebrew, New York, Edition, 46, 20 Tevet, 5681)
Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld ZTK'L
Again and again, Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld exhorted the Jews of chutz la'Aretz to come to Eretz Israel. “Whoever has the means to come live in Eretz Israel and does not, will have to answer for it in Heaven," he would say. (HaIsh Al HaChoma, II, 149 )
R' Chaim looked at his grandson lovingly and replied, "My son, I feel that being a laborer in Eretz Israel is greater than being a Rav in Chutz La'aretz (the diaspora)." Hearing this, the grandson immediately abandoned his plans [To leave for chutz la aretz].
In Moriah, Rav Yitzchak Breuer tells us that in 1926, Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld asked him, "Where are the Torah Jews from the lands of our exile? Don't they see G-d's finger in all this? Now I understand what it says in the musaf prayer for Yom Tov. "And because of our sins we were exiled from our country and were distanced from our Land.' 'We were exiled from our country' by Hashem, and then 'we were distanced from our Land' by ourselves! Have we ceased our constant anticipation? Imagine that it hadn't rained for 2,000 years, and then suddenly one day a tiny cloud appeared. Wouldn't everyone become excited, and say, trembling - 'Perhaps this is it? Maybe after all...? Isn't the Mandate at least comparable to this little cloud?' , (Moriah, p. 197).
"How can one fail to see G-d's hand in all this? We must work to settle the Land, with faith in G-d who gave us His Torah" (Haish Al haChoma, part II, p. 57).
R' Chaim would also go out of his way to befriend the Haganah boys when they came into shul. When some people criticized his association with these young men who were known to desecrate the Shabbos, R' Chaim replied: "I have never seen them desecrate the Shabbos and until I have absolute evidence of this, I must apply the principle that Jews are assumed to be G-d-fearing and observant until proven otherwise ... In any case, these youngsters risk their lives to defend other Jews and they deserve an effort on our part to draw them closer to Torah and mitzvos."
The Rav issued this manifesto in 5667 (1907), when he served as the Rabbi of Jaffa and the settlements.
To Eretz Israel, my friends, to Eretz Israel!: Let us proclaim this with one voice, with a great and incessant voice. Come to Eretz Israel, dear brothers; come to Eretz Israel. Save your souls; save the souls of your [future] generations, the souls of our entire nation. Save [our people] from desolation and destruction, from decay and debasement, from, defilement and evil, from all the troubles and distress that they are likely to encounter in the lands of the nations, without exception or distinction. “Come to Eretz Israel!” we shall exclaim, in an awesome and mighty voice, a thunderous and resounding cry that generates a storm and shakes heaven and earth, a voice that rends all chambers of the heart. Run for your lives and come to Eretz Israel. G-d’s voice summons us; His hand is stretched out to us; His spirit in our hearts gathers us in, encourages us, and compels us all to cry out in a mighty and awesome voice: “Jewish brethren, beloved and precious kinsmen, come to Eretz Israel; gather together one by one. (Yeshayah 27:12)
"The more one is incapable of tolerating the air outside the land of Israel; the more one feels the impure spirit of the defiled land - this is a sign of a more interior absorption of the Kedusha of the Land of Israel, of the sublime kindness which will never abandon the person who has merited to take refuge in the clear umbrage of the land of life, even in his distant journeys, even in his exile, and in the land of his wanderings". (Orot, Eretz Israel)
Rav Avraham Yitzchak Ha Kohen Kook ZTKL
